Dang, Banjo! You are posting on this stooooopid day trip thread even faster than you ride. It keeps going, and going, and going....

I can barely keep up..Thanks for sharing the ride!

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Hey man!! I'm still waiting for that new clutch for my DR650 to come in. :ddog

I need to get up your way for a thumper ride before it's too cold to go outside!
.....that silly little V-Strom has been stealing all my seat time so far this year. It somehow survived our little ride down the CDT in July though, didn't it?

I am still enjoying your rides and have found that I have no need for a camera as you seem to ride places I ride and you take great pictures. Then there are the places that you ride and photograph that I haven't been to and now I want to go there......

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Ditto, on both counts.

Kev, seems like you pass through my 'hood all the time. That "Creamline Dairy" is just a few minutes away. Maybe we'll ride together again someday.

Well I was planning to head down to Rebel Yell this weekend in Suches, Ga but I didn't get my Thu-Fri swapped to a Sat-Sun.

The weather was yucky here Thu, cold and rainy and it was cold again this morning but looked to be sunny. UPS tracking showed that the new clutch for my DR would be delivered today but it hadn't showed yet by noon and I got bored after a lazy morning and decided to go out for a spin.

The view turning off the street I live on made it look like I may have made the right choice.

Admittedly the fall colors here in the SE US are not as wide spread spectacular as they are in other places....and it's still not quite peak yet at lower elevations either.

There's usually a few splashes of brilliance in the KM parks.....not so much yet at the living history farm though.

I was thinking about stopping here and just chilling out for a while...but when I got here I didn't feel like it anymore.

So down the road I go...

...down to that same old neighborhood beaver pond.

I didn't see any beavers....just a bird.

I was thinking of riding up towards the foothills to see more color but there were some scary looking black clouds floating around.

The forecast was for snow showers at higher elevations but I thought it would stay sunny down low..better check the bat-phone-radar.

Should I stay or should I go?

I decided to head back for home and got sprinkled on as I rode through town. This house used to have several more big bright colorful trees in the yard but new owners cut them all down. :huh

Turing back onto my street...I just made it in the dry.

...and looked who followed me up the driveway!

I didn't get around to working on the DR yet though...but I did change the heater core in my truck. Still have to finish hooking up wires, hoses and cables tomorrow before work as I ran out of daylight. (phone pic)

I don't know if it's a good thing that I'm missing out on Rebel Yell or not.

OK....today my wife actually had some free time that matched my free time and she wanted to go see some pretty leaves too.

The ride ended up being a partial repeat of yesterday's but the one one big change would be that we would be riding two-up on "the pig"

That old '79 XS11 seemed eager enough herself and away we went...

I tried not to take too many repeat pics as we passed through the KM parks today...

There's more color around this cabin than there was last week though.

We were a little pressed for time today so instead of scouring the backroads for real estate we blasted down the 4 lane for a ways... That mtn is the one I was on top of yesterday.

Although there does appear to be some available along the lake.

I did at least one repeat pic....trying for a better exposure.

We stopped at Larkin's for a mid afternoon lunch out on the patio.

Now I don't see too many of these old XS11s out and about anymore but.....

...as we were leaving look what was parked just a few feet away!

The Mrs. didn't want her pic taken....

We neglected to stop at a roadside cider stand while we were up at the lake so the next best thing would be one of the farm's outlets in Gaffney on the way home. That would also keep us off the boring 4 lane.

Christmas looks to be on the way!

I don't know if this recipe they had posted inside is any good or not...why don't you try it and let me know?